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Frankie And Johnny
In The Claire De Lune - Tour.
Playwright - Terrence McNally.
Director - Michael Emans.
Designer - Lyn McAndrew.
Lighting Designer - Grahame Coyle.
Sound Designer - Dav Forrester.
Company - Rapture Theatre. email.
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at The Lochgelly Centre, Fife.
Run Time - 2 hours including one interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Keeps you hoping.
He's a short order chef, just been there six weeks. She's been a waitress
at the same place for far longer. We meet them when their one night stand
has taken them back to Frankie's bed.
He's confident he's got a future in his reach now, but Frankie's gonna
need a lot of persuading. Wrong side of thirty she's had more than few
relationships, and Julie Duncanson's spiky performance gives us a woman
afraid to take even a step towards possibility.
Like most people on their own she tries so to look secure, but it's a
tough veneer. Will Johnny crack it? Lewis Howden gets the mix of a man
whose nothing special looked at by a balance sheet or a CV but look at
with a heart he's value comes through. When he speaks he's gleaned a lyrical
tongue from his love of fine words, a balm for Frankie's bitter distancing.
Tenderness waxes and wanes, as both are fearful of another disappointment.
McNally's play gives us both the male and female takes on what it means
to be close and to take a chance. Before sunrise they fall out, make up
and oh so cautiously learn how to see and like what they see.
An adult play about ordinary people, Howden and Duncanson under Michael
Emans' direction, keeps you hoping. Like the all through the night DJ
Johnny gets to play a request, you want to believe that there are Frankies
and Johnnys all over the world finding each other in the moonlight. It's
another quality production from Rapture who are choosing a well selected
variety of plays to tour Scotland's small and medium sized venues.
© Thelma Good Month 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Pervious reviews of Rapture Theatre Productions.
Cast: Frankie - Julie Duncanson and Johnny -
Lewis Howden. Radio Announcer - Mike Tibbetts.
2003 Tour Details of Rapture Theatre's production
of Play .
Tour begins
Review - Keeps
you hoping.
Tour Begins
13 Sept at 7:30pm Kilmarnock Palace Theatre 01563 554900.
18 Sept at 7:30pm Eastfield Community Centre 01416418319.
19 Sept at 8pm Dunkeld Birnam Institute 01350 727674.
20 Sept at 7:30pm East Kilbride Village 01355 248669.
21 Sept at 7:30pm Motherwell Civic Theatre 01698 302999.
23 Sept at 7pm North Edinburgh Arts Centre 0131 315 2151.
26 Sept at 7:30pm Oban Corran Hall 01631 567 333.
27 Sept at 8pm Mull Little Theatre, Dervaig 01688 302828.
2 Oct at 7:30pm Greenock Arts Guild Theatre 01475 723038.
3 Oct at 7:30pm Ayr Gaiety Theatre 01292 611222.
4 Oct at 7:30pm Fife Lochgelly Centre 01592 782342 .
11 Oct at 8pm Easdale Hall, Easdale Island 01852 300 579
.
24 Oct at 7:45pm Irvine Harbour Arts Ctre 01294 274059.
25 Oct at 7:45pm Cumbernauld Theatre 01236 732 887.
7 & 8 Nov at 7:30pm Paisley Arts Centre 0141 887 1010 .
9 Nov at 7:30pm Stirling Tolbooth Theatre 01786 274000.
Tour Ends
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
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